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"ASA-KAI" FCCJ Monthly Tues. Breakfast Meeting

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Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 07:30 - 08:45

Good news for early risers!

H.E. Ambassador George HaraGroup Chairman and CEO, DEFTA PartnersChairman of the Board, Alliance Forum Foundation (Organization in special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council) Special Advisor to the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister of Japan

Topic: Changing the World through Public Interest Capitalism and Revolutionary Technologies

H.E. Ambassador George Hara is an archaeologist, entrepreneur/industrialist and a UN diplomat. In Japan, Ambassador Hara served as Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Finance, and the Prime Minister’s Special Commissioner on the Government Tax Panel, as Advisor to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and as a member of various government committees, including Japan’s Industrial Structure Council of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Ambassador Hara has also previously served on the boards of the San Francisco Opera, University of San Francisco, Tokyo Foundation, Japan Society and the Hara Research Foundation. In 2003, Hara received the National Leadership Award and was named Honorary Co-Chairman of the Business Advisory Council (Republican Party) in the US.

Ambassador Hara was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1952. After graduating from Keio University’s Faculty of Law, Hara became involved in archaeological research in Central America until the age of 27. Following this, he enrolled in the Stanford MBA Program in California and received a Master of Science degree from the Stanford University Graduate School of Engineering after a period serving as a UN Fellow.

He is also the author of numerous publications, including a Japanese best-seller entitled 21 Seiki no Kokufuron (An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in the 21st Century), published by Heibonsha in 2007, and Atarashii Shihonshugi (New Capitalism) published by PHP in 2009.